The benefits of Fungi and Friends

Benefits of Microbes: solve problems with biology

1. Creates well structured, aerobic soil: allows gas movement

-Forms Micro and Macro Aggregates -aim: 'bouncy’

1. Nutrient Provision:

-Minerals and Metabolites (more complex compounds crucial for health and are precursors to many many more metabolites including neuromodulators)

-Sources them, Makes them and Retains them,

-Makes them bio-available 

-Direct root cell provision

1. Suppresses Problems

-Pests, Disease, Weeds, Protects and provides various defence mechanisms; too much to say here.

-Breaks up Toxins,

1. Water Management: Hydrology

-Holds onto water, releases slowly, drains excess

-Direct root cell provision 

1. Sequesters Carbon: through fungal energy channel and biomass and advanced transformation to forms more resistant to break down. 

6. Feeds micro arthropods and nematodes (further enables nutrient cycling)

7. Gives plants resilience in the face of climate change.

-Greater tolerance to environmental stressors and rapid change of weather

8. Creates Soil -greater depths -which maximises points 1-7

9. Supports insects and all life and ecology due to points 1-8 and also to the need to combine remediation by microbes with remediation by plants to maximise soil ecosystem health. 

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